Hi all, Above is my newest painting and my very first “commission” – or sort of, anyway. I was contacted a few weeks back by a fellow member of an English language forum here in Switzerland where I also post my paintings. She asked if I had any paintings from the Jungfrau region for sale….
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making new christmas traditions
Hi all, As mentioned before, we are new to this part of Switzerland. In fact, this is our first Christmas here. When moving here, we gave up a lot: good friends, community, a sense of being established and (not least) a stone’s throw distance to shopping in France and Germany. Don’t get me wrong – we…
new painting – “Lost on Flumserberg”
Hi there, So I lied. It took more than a few days to get this new one on here. I am starting to get busy with seasonal stuff, so am not painting as much as I would like. It feels like it took a tremendously long time to finish this one. But it didn’t really….
weekend wander – nov 30/14
Hello all! The snow may not be here yet, but the Christmas season has officially begun with the first of the four weeks of Advent. That means chocolate-filled calendars and advent candles on sunday, christmas markets and gluhwein. Around here it also seems to mean fog thick as pea soup – which I guess kind of…
new painting – autumn bluff at flumserberg
Hi all, Well, after some toil over the last 2-3 weeks I now have a new painting completed. At 60 x 80 cm it is little larger than my usual projects, but surprisingly did not take much longer. I credit a growing sense of confidence and experience with this small improvement. More specifically, I am…
music to paint to
Hi all, No weekend wander to post this week. I had hopes that I would get some good photos from our trip to the 500 year old Basel Herbstmesse, but by the time we got there it was fairly dark and I sadly have no talent with night-time photography, as you can see below. Today I…
size matters
Hi all, I mentioned in my most recent post that I am currently fishing around for something to paint. Everything for the last while has been on a relatively small scale (size) – which means less commitment, quicker turnaround, arguably less impact. For me, rookie that I am, it also is much less intimidating. But…
weekend wander – or more like a week and a half in october
Hi there, It has been two weeks since my friends from California came and then left again, leaving me missing them and sick with some sort of euro-superbug for which I was made susceptible by too many late nights. These are ladies of great energy and enthusiasm. In the animal world they would be parrots…
weekend wander – october 5/14
Hello all! I am so happy to finally take a moment and put together another weekend wander. I have had two of ’em sitting in the rafters waiting and have been really wanting to share them. However, I have been preparing for and now have two very special guests from my old town in California…
“questionable art giveaway” no. 2
Hello friends. I mentioned in an earlier post to stay tuned as there could be giveaways of my “questionable art.” If you would like your own HD original, made-with-love, amateurish acrylic swiss landscape it would tickle me pink to ship it to you at no cost (goes to first taker). It is small so I can…
oh, dear – bad blogger!
It really has been a long time since I have been here. And not just “not here” here. I also haven’t been painting and haven’t been hiking. I just simply have not felt like it and am only just recovering from the lethargy of summer vacation and the upheaval of a new school year. I guess…
new painting – view of kleiner mythen
Hello all, It has certainly been awhile. Bad weather and family commitments have kept me from my walks and shear laziness has kept me from painting and writing. I have, however, managed to finish one small painting. The material for this came from my hike awhile ago to Sattel. It was a lovely day, but…
The Tipsy Pine 